TY - JOUR
T1 - Committee Politics in the Antebellum Senate
AU - Sievert, Joel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2020 American University, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Although the Senate did not have standing committees for its first several decades, the system adopted in the early nineteenth century has endured for over two centuries. Previous research on early Senate committees focuses broadly on their general development and evolution or explores how parties came to control committee politics. While both of these approaches advance our understanding of the Senate’s institutional development, we know comparatively less about which interests were represented on committees. In order to better understand this component of committee politics, I examine how sectional and state-level interests influenced the politics of committee assignments in the antebellum Senate.
AB - Although the Senate did not have standing committees for its first several decades, the system adopted in the early nineteenth century has endured for over two centuries. Previous research on early Senate committees focuses broadly on their general development and evolution or explores how parties came to control committee politics. While both of these approaches advance our understanding of the Senate’s institutional development, we know comparatively less about which interests were represented on committees. In order to better understand this component of committee politics, I examine how sectional and state-level interests influenced the politics of committee assignments in the antebellum Senate.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088863886&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07343469.2020.1790691
DO - 10.1080/07343469.2020.1790691
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088863886
JO - Congress and the Presidency
JF - Congress and the Presidency
SN - 0734-3469
ER -